military plane

collocation in English

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military
adjective
uk
/ˈmɪl.ɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈmɪl.ə.ter.i/
relating to or belonging to the ...
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plane
noun[C]
uk
/pleɪn/us
/pleɪn/
;
a vehicle designed for air travel, with wings and one or ...
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(Definition ofmilitaryandplanefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is definitely themilitaryplanefor which the tender has been invited.
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There is agreement on the abolition of themilitaryplane.
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The difficulty of the cotton trade is the difficulty of relieving the tension that exists in the world on the economic andmilitaryplane.
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The pilot of the civil aircraft did not see themilitaryplaneand could not, therefore, report it as a near miss, but an incident report has been filed.
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The maintenance of our independent capability involves not only a project for amilitaryplane, but also a future programme for the aircraft industry as a whole.
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Amilitaryplanewas later dispatched to the pole to airdrop equipment and medications.
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They reach the airport as themilitaryplaneis taxiing in the runway.
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An unmarkedmilitaryplanemakes an emergency landing.
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Although those planes were civil models, they could easily be converted to military planes or to be used for military purposes.
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It is very important that these are civil planes and not military planes.
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Some military planes are being made available to us, but they tend to be too small.
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But what about some of the traffickers in armaments who have been buying up military planes and transferring them?
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He said that this money was really not for industrial planes, but for military planes, that we have to subsidise such military planes, even those that do not fly.
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Tanks patrolled the streets and military planes flew overhead.
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This may well have been used by other countries for their military planes.
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He also wrote to aircraft companies to obtain information about their production, number of employees, and the time required to construct military planes.
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This technology has trickled down from airliners and military planes until it is now standard in many general aviation aircraft.
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Special needs populations, especially infirm evacuees, were flown out on military planes as the forward movement of the storm narrowed the evacuation window.
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Military planes were grounded, and 99% of staff; including military barbers and chaplains, were asked to go through their files.
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